When you first talk to him, D’Aloisio sounds like any other awkward teenager. “Trimit will extract what it believes are the most important sentences and…. yeah, ok,” he pauses. “Yeah.” But then he’s off again with phrases like “developer licenses,” “business road maps,” and “penetrating a saturated market,” all rolling off the tongue. Once he gets going, D’Aloisio talks at a dizzying speed. By email, he’s pushy, sending me upwards of 15 earlier this summer, speaking as “we” to check if I would write about Facemood. (I didn’t.) Despite that youthful zeal, D’Aloisio seems focused on what he’s doing. “Filtering content on the web is the next big industry,” he says. “Instead of Facebook and Twitter you’ll have tools to help consume content, as opposed to create it. It’ll be news-reader services that finds stuff on the web and connects it to you.”

The second article offers his ten tips for the parents of a teenage app developer. Read them and weep.

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